Grant Program Environment

To promote responsible solutions to the long-term public health threats from decades of waste from nuclear weapons production.

To promote diversified and value-added enterprises on conserved farms, and to assist new farmers in becoming owner-operators of conserved farms.

To maintain and advance existing smart growth gains in Vermont by stopping “big box” commercial developments from being built outside community centers, and to educate the public about the economic, environmental, and community impacts of development on the scale Wal-Mart…

To provide business planning skills to farmers to increase their profitability and preserve land for farming through better business practices.

To improve corporate policies and practices on greenhouse gas emissions in New England by securing carbon reduction commitments from companies and by generating business and investor support for climate change policy solutions at the regional and national levels.

To inform the public, the media, public interest organizations, elected officials, and policymakers of the scientific data from the center’s biomedical research in an effort to prevent environmentally related disease in children.

To serve as an incubator for campaigns and strategies that implement chemical phaseouts from key market sectors, weaken the role of the chemical industry in devising regulations, and use body burden testing and other environmental monitoring as key tools for…

To establish incentives for the purchase (and indirectly, the production) of motor vehicles with lower greenhouse gas emissions in Connecticut.

To investigate and document Clean Air Act violations by coal-fired power plants in the Ohio Valley; to bring citizen lawsuits against the owners to require them to reduce the plants’ mercury and fine particle emissions; and to use the lawsuits…

To move the health care sector to make environmental health issues an important criterion in product selection of medical devices, building materials, food and chemicals; and to educate the health care industry about the links between environmental toxins and human…